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aNKS of the AMERICAN PEOPLE TO GEN. JOHN J. 

PERSHING. 



jEptember 11, 1919. — Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state 
of the Union and ordered to be printed. 



Mr. Kahn, from the , Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the 

following 

REPORT. 

[To accompany H. J. Res. 202.] 

The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the 
esolution (H. J. Res. 202) tendering the thanks of the American 
leople and the Congress of the United States to Gen. John J. Pershing 
nd to the officers and men of the American Expeditionary Forces, 
nd for other pm'poses, having considered the same, report thereon 
dth a recommendation that it do pass. 

The Congress has on a number of occasions authorized the pre- 
«. riVition of swords or medals to officers of the Army and Navy. In 
the 'feise of Admiral Dewey a sword was presented. Gen. Grant 
received a medal. In view of the high honors conferred by Great 
Britain, France, Italy, and the other allied nations upon their com- 
maiif^ing generals, your committee thought it would be exceedingly 
tijipropriato to present Gen. Pershing with the sword for which 
app] opriation is made in the joint resolution. The resolution also 
expresses the thanks of the American people and of the Congress to 
Gen. Pershing and to the officers and men under his command. 

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